The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-10
Pith and Point.

A NEVADA man who started out to look
for a grizzly bear found him in time for
dinner-the bears dinner.-Puck
ACCORDING to Mrs Grundy it is the ambi-
ton of the average youth at the seaside to
dress as much like fool as possible.
SENATOR "ZEB" VANCE is reported as
saying: All know about finance is that
it takes two better names than mine to get
money out of a bank"
PEACH and grape-growers all along the
Hudson river valley are iubilant. These
crops promise not only the largest but the
finest harvests on record.
A CURIOUS coincidence is reported from
Wisconsin. A lost canary flew into coun-
try newspaper Office while compositor was
setting the type to advertise it.
ANOTHER material has been found out Of
which paper is made, but it is supertuous.
Any man can make paper; the trouble is to
get good indorsers. Philadelphia Call.
In filling out death certificate a Buffalo
physician attested that the contributing
cause of death was croup-cure made and
sold by another doctor of the same city.
"I SAY, Dumley," remarked Featherly,
" YOU look tired and worn out. why don't
you take a vacation?' " | have just got
back from one" replied Dumley, YEARLY
Puck.
IT is said that the next edition of Webster
will describe "yearning" as the feeling
which eastern people have to get away from
Dakota after passing one winter in that
region.
A MOST painful surprise awaits Henry NJ.
Stanley, should he live to tread the soil of
America again. He has not seen any of the
portraits that accompanied his obituaries in
the newspapers.
A WRITER in an agricultural journal asks,
How can hogs be made to pay ?" 1t is
impossible. The best way is to keep them
out of the hotel dining-room altogether
NeW Orleans Picdyune.
A PENNSYLVANIA paper sees an advertise
ment for " a boy to do heavy work and
comments that boys who would be caught
by an advertisement like that are very
scarce in this section"
GoURMETs at a table d'hote: This banana
pudding is exquisite; it tastes just like
rawberries. And this strawberry short
cake is superb one would think it was
made of bananas. "-French Joke.
"MA, de theology say yer dat dc human
body am imposed of free-fourth watah."
WAL, yo' bettah move off to school an
git outen dat hot sun, ur fus ting yo' know
yo be 'vaporating. "-Hdrper's Bdzar.
THE report that New Jersey belle had
the hide of a homegrown mosquito tanned
and converted into pair of gloves is an
error. 1t was pair of shoes she had made
of the insects hide.-Norristolcn Herald.
the police force, "that a policeman knows
a rogue when he sees him ?'' No doubt"
was the reply; "but the trouble is that he
does not seize rogue when he knows
him. "-EJchdnge.
SACRED to his memory" said Fogg, read
ing the legend on the tombstone of his dead
friend Hawkins; why, Hawkins never had
any memory. He never could remember
anything for five minutes in all his life.''-
Boston Transcript.
A YOUNG scientist just graduated from
Yale has estimated that every hen in the
country scratches over two acres of ground
every year, and that the leg-power in gross
would run a threshing- machine for two
weeks.-DetroH Free Press.
A MEDICAL writer on hay-fever says the
English and American people are the most
susceptible to it, and of those, the upper
and cultivated classes and the male sex.
In the north of Europe the disease is almos t
unknown while in France, Germany, Italy
and Spain it is rare.
DEAR me, ate cucumbers for dinner and
L can taste them yet" exclaimed a man
noted for his righteousness to his clerk the
other afternoon. "Well there is one COM
fort" answered the clerk; you are certain
of getting your moneys worth" "That' s
so,' replied the cucumber-eater, " didn't
think of that. "-Elmird Gazette.
EXCITED fisherman to summer hotel man
.
Every brook has sign warning people off.
What do you mean by Turing anglers here
with the promise of fine fishing?" Hotel
man: 81 didn't say anything about fine
fishing. If you read my advertisement
carefully you will see that what | said was
Fishing unapproachabe.'
CLARIQUE is the name of a new temper
ance drink very popular in Kansas. 1t is
not Intoxicating, but it has a curious effect
on the eyes, giving one moon the appearance
of two, and it also affects the lower limbs
in such way as to make locomotion ex-
tremely difficult, 1t is believed to contain
an oriental sleeping potion, as people who
drink it seem willing to lie down anyw here
and take nap.-Chicdgo Mail
THE priest of Canicatti, a large town in
the province of Girgenti, Sicily, recently
caused to appear beside him in the pulpit a
young man whose face was blackened,
whose head was furnished with two large
horns, and he had long tall from the end
of which crackers went off. The priest in
formed his flock that this figure was the
devil and great panic ensued. Women
and children present at this unseemly
comedy were injured in the crush.
THE fifteen great American inventions OF
worldwide adoption are one, the cotton
gin; two, the planing-machne; three, the
grass-mower and reaper; four, the rotary
printing-press; five, navigation by steam
six, the hot-air engine; seven, the sewing
machine; eight, the India rubber indus.
try; nine, the machine manufacture OF
horseshoes; ten, the sandblast for carving
eleven, the gauge lathe; twelve, the grain
elevator; thirteen, artificial ice making on a
large SCALE fourteen, the electric magnet
and its practical applications fifteen, the
telephone.
WE read in Good housekeeping, Spring
field Mass, Just out: "Tea taken hot is
more wholesome than iced tea, and that this
is well shown by the enormous population
of China, which could never have increased
TO its present numbers if epidemics haC
ravaged that empire as they have those o
the West. In spite of overcrowding to
a degree elsewhere unknown and indie
scribably filthy surroundings, the Chimes,
have remained healthy. The only sanitary
redeeming feature of their lives is the al
most universal use of tea az beverage
that is to say, of water that has been boiled
This lesson in practical sanitation is o
more value than anything brought forth b,
our numerous boards of health. In tn,
presence OF an epidemic of cholera, typhoid
fever or dysentery the wisest precaution t.
take against infection would be to boil al
fluids used for drinking purposes"
OK Thursday last at the mart, Token
house Yard, Messrs. Wells & Read offere,
at public auction the freehold domains o
an enormous estate situate in the Provinc
of Vefsen, in Norway, and about two hun
dred miles north Of Trondhjem, lying be
tween sixty-fve degrees and sixty-six de
grees north latitude. No portion of /
reached beyond the temperate zone. 1t wa
described as occupying tiftieth part of til